[BNM] BNM Solar power & macbookpro

[Dave Phelan]

On 8/4/07, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
> Yea - apparently it interfered with the Gulf stream this year - it
> didn't go up as high as normal.

That sounds like pub climate science to me. Yes, it's feasible that
climate change is changing the flow of the gulf stream (increased
influx of cold fresh water diluting the north atlantic thermohaline
circulation) but there aren't sufficiently robust data to say this is
happening, and attributing the wet summer to a failing gulf stream
isn't helpful. This summer is within the bounds of 'normal' weather,
although rather extreme. The issue with climate chnage is that the
likelyhood of extreme events is increasing.

> If summer gets turned into winter it's a fair bet that winter will be
> turned into something else as well. And it probably won't be summer,
> autumn or spring.

No. Summer will still be summer. It just won't be what your storybooks
tell you it should be.
Winter will still be winter. Maybe it will be storybook snows. Maybe
it will be dry droughts.
Most probably: no-one knows.

Dave Ph
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